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Theses and Dissertations (Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology): Recent submissions
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)The study on bush encroachment goes as far back as 1917, which is ranked among the top three rangeland problems in South Africa with expected increase in affected areas. Bush encroachment is considered one of the most ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)The acquisition of spatial data can be a problematic process, especially for geographically isolated areas or those where fieldwork is difficult. It is, therefore, important to explore non- field-based methods of producing ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)Aardvark (Orycteropus afer) burrows provide shelter to a variety of organisms, making it important to understand how these engineered environments get utilized in areas that are affected by agricultural activities. To ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)This study is an exploratory and descriptive inquiry to provide an in-depth account of women farmers in Maseru and Quthing districts in Lesotho to capture how they perceive, experience, and respond to climate variability. ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)This mini-dissertation considers semi-parametric finite mixtures of partially linear models with Gaussian errors and focuses on the estimation procedure for such models. The semi-parametric structure allows for flexible ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)Across the world, grasslands provide open space and resources to many wildlife species, but are under severe threat of transformation by agriculture and land-use change. Although the grassland biome of South Africa is ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)Astrometric and geodetic Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) at the Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory (HartRAO) contribute to the realisation of the International Celestial Reference Frame (ICRF) and determination ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022-07)Clear air turbulence is a hazardous micro-scale feature to the aviation industry, and the forecasting thereof remains a significant challenge. Clear air turbulence indices describe possible turbulent development mechanisms ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)Despite the strategic importance of community parks for low-income areas where residents are often confined into densely occupied living areas, these parks remain neglected and research about the sense of connectedness or ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)Over the last two decades, the South African energy situation has seen a significant change on account of a growing population, urbanisation, and economic growth. With an increasing population and the governmental drive ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)Agribusiness which contributes significantly to most economies in Africa is under threat from socio-economic and political factors which affect their productivity. This study set out to investigate the factors influencing ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)Climate change requires the urgent and effective implementation of climate change mitigation measures. These provide the potential to reduce global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and to limit global warming to 2°C or less ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022-05-13)Intensive land-use changes and management can serve as indicators for major impacts on biodiversity, especially when those changes show the loss of natural habitat due to urban sprawl, cultivation, mining, logging, and ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014-03)An extensive compulsory cattle dipping programme was introduced in Venda from 1915 to counter rinderpest and East Coast Fever (ECF). This study approached the sustainability of cattle dipping from environmental, economic, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)A supercell thunderstorm, notorious for producing large hail, damaging winds, tornadoes, and flooding, often results in damage to property, injuries, and loss of life. Supercells were previously considered rare in South ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022-02-14)Food security is an issue of global concern; this has mandated research on the development of systems for monitoring of agriculture using cost effective techniques such as remote sensing. Smallholder maize farms are dominant ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)The teaching of pre-colonial urban settlements in Africa has been neglected and, where present, it has traditionally relied on false concepts of civilization that played directly into stereotypes of precolonial African ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)Peatlands are wetlands with peat-producing plants that account for one-third of wetlands worldwide and provide a variety of ecological functions and ecosystem services such as carbon storage, biomass production, biodiversity ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)Addresses are an integral part of daily life, but little is understood about what South Africans’ perceptions of them are. This was explored through three groups; residents of informal settlements and surrounding areas who ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)Burrowing mammals, i.e., mammals that dig in the ground for shelter creation, food, and nesting, play an important role in the ecosystem, since their burrows support plant and animal assemblages that differ from that of ...
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